Enchantment Land | |
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Multiple Card Types | |
Subtypes |
Enchantment type Land type |
Storm Scale | 5[1] |
Statistics |
2 cards 50% 50% |
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type:"Enchantment Land" |
An enchantment land is a Magic: The Gathering card with both the enchantment and the land types.[2]
History[ | ]
Players often wondered if enchantment lands had been considered for the "enchantment matters" Theros block. Mark Rosewater admitted that R&D's experience with artifact lands (which turned out way too powerful) scared them off from even trying, especially with Constellation in the mix.[3][4][5] It would have been a problem even if the enchantment land was legendary.[6][7] Even one enchantment land would have forced development to raise the costs of all the cards with the Constellation mechanic.[8]
Enchantment land first appeared on a test card in the Mystery Booster set (Enchanted Prairie).
Rosewater assumed enchantment lands would appear in a regular set one day (possibly in a supplemental set) but most likely not in a set where “enchantments matter”.[9] The first black-bordered enchantment land, Urza's Saga, indeed appeared in Modern Horizons 2.[2] However, the second enchantment land, Valgavoth's Lair, defied Rosewater's expectation, as Duskmourn: House of Horror was a set with a major enchantment focus. This came about after R&D had made some artifact lands that weren’t as problematic, and realizing they could safely make enchantment ones.[10]
The Storm Scale is at a middling 5, as most scaling enchantment effects are carefully regulated, but the enchantment land would need to make sense in the set otherwise.[1]
Ruling[ | ]
- Playing an enchantment land as a land uses a land drop, the same as playing an artifact land.[11]
References[ | ]
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (March 21, 2024). ""yo! I know this is not a keyword ability but, on the storm scale, where is "enchantment land" ?"". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ a b Adam Styborski (May 6, 2021). "Welcome to the Summer of Legend". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 18, 2014). "Was an enchantment land ever in consideration for Theros block?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 14, 2014). "Was mirridon/new phyrexia artifact land and how good it was with affinity similar to why there wasn't enchantment lands?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 16, 2016). "It's still difficult to understand your reluctance to make an enchantment land.". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (July 24, 2014). "Why didn't Theros block have an Enchantment Land?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (October 09, 2014). "Couldn't you have made Nyx itself as a card?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 15, 2014). "Don't you think the issue with Mirrodin's artifact lands is that there are so many of them?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (April 05, 2016). "What are the chances of ever seeing an enchantment land?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 21, 2024). "You said enchantment lands were too big of a risk. What changed with Valgavoth's lair?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Eli Shiffrin (November 11, 2019). "Mystery Booster Release Notes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.